A lot of people think that YouTube is free promotion. If you want to show the world about your talent in singing, playing an instrument or acting, you can simply shoot a video of yourself and advertise it on YouTube. Soon you will be a star right? Well, with the recent removal of amateur musician videos in YouTube, that dream will remain impossible to be achieved.

We all know that YouTube is owned by Google. It seems like musicians have a lot of unlucky strikes with Google lately. It was only last month when music bloggers were banned from Blogger because of copyright issues. Now, amateur musicians are also not as welcomed in YouTube for the same reason. Just this weekend, news from the New York Times showed a girl named Juliet Weybret who got her amateur music video of Winter Wonderland removed from YouTube.

It is not that we can blame YouTube for this. They are knowledgeable on the free community they like to create and they do not want to suppress the creativity of their users. After all, their revenue comes not only from the people viewing their videos but also from those creating them. This is the reason why YouTube have decided to negotiate with the major music companies so that they may allow their users to air their content. However, one company do not want to bulge and that is the Warner Music Group.

It was just this December when Warner and Youtube did not agree on their licensing deal. YouTube offered Warner a cut in advertising costs for permission on using the company’s music. Since the disagreement, Warner has always been on the lookout for music videos or even segments of videos that uses their music in the background. YouTube is left no choice but to remove the videos or mute the audio.

As the staff lawyer of Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fred Von Lohmann, said “Thousands of videos disappeared…Either they turned off the audio, or they pulled the video.”

But Will Tanous, the spokesman for Warner, explained their side. “We and our artists share the user community’s frustration when content is unavailable. YouTube generates revenues from content posted by fans, which typically requires licenses from rights holders. Under the current process, we make YouTube aware of WMG content. Their content ID tool then takes down all unlicensed tracks, regardless of how they are used,”

This is just an example of a continuous conflict between public video communities and copyright.

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The very recent update from the world of Google is that YouTube and Google are going to join their hands together to explore the unseen opportunities of online videos which could enhance all sorts of interests of Search Engine Optimization. Till this time, Google has been trusting Google videos to link online video clippings to the web pages. Eliminating the limited capabilities of Google video, Google signed up with YouTube which could bring tremendous improvements in video quality, Search engine results and lots more.

First and foremost objective of Google-YouTube interaction is to send a link from the YouTube to your web page to run the video associated content. The second objective seem to be the obvious reason behind the Google-YouTube thinking which helps the search engine optimization objectives of a web page to broaden the horizons in its long run.

The practice of Search engine enhancement through YouTube starts from the inclusion of a video site map which would be extremely different from that of an inclusion of HTML site map or SML site map of the web site you are trying to promote. This practice demands you to have a different landing for each and every video clippings you include which would increase the chances of search engines to find your video fast.

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